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IL CROCE ROMANI.

cross, and placed upon a square pedestal and plinth block, elevated on a few courses of rude masonry as in Photog. No. 215 (Coll. Roy. Soc.), and Figs. 1, 2, and 3, Diagram No. 216. The ball and cross are secured to the top of the column, only by an iron dowal, and are loose; the plane of

the cross has been long twisted out of square, I was informed.

No injury has been sustained by this little structure, except that the pedestal has been thrown over, being lifted slightly at the south side by 1/4 of an inch vertically,